Mohave County miner., 1887-09-10
MORGAN. THE IsUCCANEER.
knisistcd by Charles III. and Made
Governor OF Jamnicn.

Howard Pyle, in Harper's AIaga
zine for August, briefly narrates the
principal events 10 the career of the
boldest buccaneer OF the sixteenth
century, As follows:
The grentest OF all buccaneers, he
who stands pre-eminently among
them, and whose name even to this
day is a charm to call up his deeds oI
daring, dauuiless courage, his trucu.
lent cruelty. ani bis unsuitable and
unappe ssable lust for gold, was Cap
tain Henry Morgan, the bold Welsh
man, who brought buccaneering to
the height and flower Of its glory
Having sold himself. after the man
ner OF the times. for his passage
across the seas, he worked ont bis
time OF servituds at Barbados. As
soon as he had regained his liberty
he entered upon the trade of piracy.
wherein he soon reached a position
OF considerable prominence.
The first attempt that Captain
Henry Morgan ever made against
any town in tho Spanish Islands was
the bold descent upon the city OF
Puerto Principe, in the Island Of
Cuba, with mere handful of men.
It was deed the boldness Of which
has never been outdone by any OF
like nature-not even the famous at
tack upon Panama itself. Thence
they returned to their boats in the
very face Of the whole Island OF
Cuba, aroused and determined upon
their determination. Not only did
they make good their escape, but
they brought away with them vast
amount of plumber, computed at 3OO,-
600 pieces OF eight, besides 500
head OF cattle and many prisoners
held for ransom.
But when the division OF this
wealth came to be made, 10! there
were only $4,000 pieces OF eight to be
found. What had become of the rest
no man could tell except Captain
Henry Morgan himself. Honesty
among thieves was not an axiom
with HIM. Rude, turbulent and dis
honest as Capt. Morgan was, he
seems to have bad q wonderful power
of persuading the wild buccaneers
under him to submit everything to
bis judgment, and to rely entirely
upon his word. In spite of the vast
sum Of money that he bad very evl
IDENTIFY made away with, recruits
poured in npop him until his band
was larger and liter equipped than
ever. eH'
The next towns to suffer were poor
Maracaybo and Gibraltar, now just
beginning to recover from the desc
lation wrought by L'Olonoise. Once
more both towns were plundered of
every bale of merchandise and of
every plaster, and once more both
were ransomcd until everything was
from the wretched inhabi-
tants. Here affairs were like to have
taken turn, for " hen CAPTAIN Nor
gan came up from Gibraltar, be
found three great men-of-war lying
in the entrance to the lake awaiting
his coming. Seeing that no WAS
hemmed in in the narrow sheet of
water. Captain Morgan was inclined
to compromise matters, even Offering
to relinquisb all the plumber hc had
gained if he were allowed to depart
IN peace. But no; tho Spanish Ad-
miral would hear nothing of this.
Having the pirates, az he thought,
securely in his grasp. he would re-
hnqnish nothing, but would sweep
them from the face of the sea once
and forever.
This was an unlucky determination
for the Spaniards to reach, for in
stead of paralyzing tho pirates with
fear, as he expected it would do. it
simply turned their mad courage
into as mad desperation. A great
vessel that they had taken from the
town of Maracaybo Was converted
into fireship, manned with logs OF
wood in montera caps and sailor